Squaremania: Rough drawing

This is a rough drawing I worked up in Adobe Photoshop.

Squaremania - Lil' Pachie buys peanuts

I finished this illustration this morning...I originally had the elephant buying a bit of candy...but that never seemed to be very satisfying...and then I thought about how much elephants like peanuts (they do, right?)...and I quickly added a bag to the drawing.

Pachie made a fine purchase, but afterward wished he bought 2 bags...

Here's a closeup without all that cash register nonsense:

Squaremania - Lil' Packie makes a purchase

The Illustration friday topic this week is Spent.  A while back I did an illustration of an elephant running and always wanted to do a follow up drawing of the elephant using his amex...a sort of play on the old (tired) joke of, "how do you stop an elephant from charging?  Take away his credit card!"

I even did a couple of thumbnail versions, but never did anything worth continuing to a final drawing.  But because of this week's topic, I was brought back to that idea - and thought it was time to see about creating it.

So this is my rough thumbnail and I'm going to clean it up in Adobe Illustrator tomorrow and color it in photoshop (whenever I have a chance):

And here's the cleanup version - I made his eyes smaller because they looked a little weird when cleaned up.  And his nose looks a little wonky, so I might have to fix that before I color it.

revisiting old characters

I'm putting together a new project - but its making me revisit older illustrations and revising them.  This is the first one I just finished - I wanted to do two versions and I needed them isolated on white - so I took out the background and redrew the eyes for the second version.



The one on the left is how I feel about running...and the elephant on the right is where I wish I could get.




Anyway - these are done....and I'm moving on.